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by Government. The though the bhdgddrs too are superior holders. But the lands of the village are measured and assessed, and the result is fixed as the revenue payable by the bhagddrs, who are generally allowed to realize from the cultivators more than the sum paid to Government, on the supposition that they have to let poor lands at less than the Government rates. Again, some villages are held by landlords of the higher class called triehwdsis, each of whom pays for one or more villages a lump sum, settled by the State annually or from time to time, which does not as a rule interfere with the internal fiscal not considered in the gross amount assessed

bhdgddri tenure

somewhat

is

different,

arrangements.

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seldom ousted for failure to pay the assessment. His liable to be sold, but if he has no saleable property, he is suffered to pay by instalments. There is no rule as to the liability of land to attachment and sale for private debt. Implements of agriculture (including carts and oxen), also seed - grain, clothes and ornaments in ordinary use, and food sufficient for a reasonable time, belonging to a cultivator and his family, are exempted from the process cultivator

is

private property

is

of a civil court.

Means of

Cotnmunication.

Railway passes through the

—The Bombay, Baroda, and Central India enters the two — points,

territory at

it

first

Navsari Division south of Surat, where are two stations, Navsari and Billimora; north of Broach the railway again passes through Baroda

from Miyagam to the Mahi

which section are the There are 59 miles of railway on the 2' 6" gauge belonging to the Gaekwar’s Government, namely, a line from Baroda to Chandod, with branch lines from Dabhoi to Badarpur and to Miajagam. The Western Rajputana State Railway There are only passes through the northern division of the State.

territory

stations of

Miyagam,

Itola,

about 20 miles of made road. description

exist

all

river,

in

Baroda, and Bajwa.

Common

country tracks of the rudest

over the State, but most of them are barely year,

owing to

utterly impassable during the

monsoon

practicable for cart traffic during eight

the sandy nature of the

soil,

and

months of the

except for horses, pack-bullocks, and camels. Administration,

estimated at

etc.

— The

18,232,

revenue, ;;^85o,637



(2)

total

revenue of the State in 1880-81 was

—

composed of the following items Customs, ;!^93,8i5; (3) Taxes on

(i)

Land

caste

and

^30,897 ; (4) Abkdri, including opium, ^41,835 ; (5) Forests, ^^695 1 ; (6) Tribute from Native States of Gujarat and Kathiawar, Of the 4754 ^63,767 ; (7) Justice, £2S,$12 ; (8) Miscellaneous,

trade,

^

-

was realized during the year, leaving a balance of only ;^5o,54o; the greater portion of this balance being on account of land revenue. The land revenue is paid in four instalments, viz. ist December, 4 total

estimated revenue, _;2Ci,o67,692